We Need Our Voices Heard Ontario Teachers Walk Off The Job As Strike Begins
Education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) picketed politicians’ offices, including hundreds outside the education minister’s election office in Vaughan, Ont., along with a large protest planned for the legislature, where hundreds of people were already gathered on the lawn. There, a day earlier, the Progressive Conservative government passed Bill 28, a law that imposed contracts on CUPE’s 55,000 members and prohibited them from striking. The law also uses the non-applicability clause to protect against constitutional challenges — a legal mechanism that has only been used twice in Ontario’s history, both times by the governments of Premier Doug Ford....